Method for conducting performance reviews

A method of evaluating the performance of personnel associated with an entity, said personnel comprised of one or more assessing personnel and one or more assessed personnel, each of said one or more assessing personnel capable of performing an assessment of one or more assessed personnel, and each of said one or more assessed personnel being the subject of an assessment by one or more assessing personnel,

• said method comprising the following steps:
• A. Determine competencies, skills, and/or behaviors of personnel to be assessed;
• B. Create a survey using a computer-based or internet-based survey application, said survey having questions directed to the competencies, skills, and/or behaviors to be assessed as determined in Step A;
• C. Create a list of one or more assessing personnel;
• D. Create a list of one or more assessed personnel;
• E. Contact each of the assessing personnel listed in the list created in Step C, providing each said assessing personnel access to the survey created in Step B and an identification of one or more assessed personnel listed in the list created in Step D;
• F. Complete an instantiation of the survey for each assessed personnel by having each of the assessing personnel access the survey created in Step B and then answer said survey's questions for each of the assessed personnel to be assessed by said assessing personnel, whereby said answers are associated with the assessed personnel and stored by the survey application;
• G. Extract data from the answers from completed instantiations of the survey stored in Step F;
• H. Create one or more displays, each said display set forth in one or more human readable formats, each said display created from data extracted in Step G, with at least one display associated with each assessed personnel, and each said display including survey data associated with said assessed personnel and including data computed from the aggregate of survey data of all assessed personnel;
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• I. Provide the one or more displays associated with each assessed personnel created in Step H to each said assessed personnel for review;
• whereby Step B is to be performed after Step A;
• Steps C and D may be performed at any time relative to each other and relative to Steps A and B;
• and Steps E through I are performed in the order listed, with Step E to be performed after Steps A through D are completed.